[vexed2002]

I'm actually quite pleased with my list..

1) The Hobbit
2) The Elenium (Kurik was the first character I ever cried for)
3) LOTR
4) Every Forgotton Realms Book I could get my hands on.. starting with the Dark Elf trilogy.

Since then, I've obviously progressed to such marvels as Martin / Jordan and I'm giving Hobbs another go due to the glowing reports (Half way through The Assassins Apprentice and managing to deal with the First Person Perspective this time.. and LOVIN IT)

PK / vexed2002

[James Barclay]

The Hobbit
LOTR
Elric books
One Conan book (oh dear... 'No ordinary man!')

Then it all melds together.

[kray3]

Well the first fantasy that i read was The Hobbit & LoTR
But the fantasy that got me stuck in this genre is Jordan's Wheel of Time

[Vitriol]

The Narnia series. The next one was The Elvenbane, about two years later.

[ookey]

My virgin experience in fantasy was The Eye of the World by Jordan. I blew through that series in one school break.

[Pete-Gas]

First was CS Lewis-Narnia
Then, in grade 4 I read the Hobbit, but got bored with Fellowship of the Ring. Tried it again the next year and loved it.
From there, I moved to Terry Brooks' Shannara series (grade 5)-still one of my favorite sets of books.
By grade 6 I was into Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance, and by grade 7 I was starting in on Robert Jordan and Ray Fiest.

[Midus]

I dont remeber if I read the Hobbit first or the Narnia books.

[Crysania]

First were the Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper
then LTOR
then Prydain series Lloyd Alexander

[Steerpike]

I suppose it was Tolkien. But I read a lot of Sci-Fi that would be classified as fantasy today like Andre Norton's Witch World and Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar series.

[Alucard]

Read the hobbit in middle school and liked it well enough. But it wasn't what really got me into the genre. Micheal Ende's Never Ending Story and Dune from Herbert were the ones that really got me going (and I know the latter is sci-fi, but I tend to lump the two together).